I have Murena 1.6 which is sitting because of broken gearbox since 2-3 years. I found topic on here, that the Murena use the same gearbox as Citroen CX. So I found CX 2.4i GTI stripped for parts in my country, and my idea is if I can use the gearbox from the CX GTI on my 1.6 Murena? Just need it to move the car around, doesn't care about the performance and the gear ratios.

What is defect on the gearbox?The CX box you can use some parts for the 1.6The primairy axle and bellhousing from a CX box is different.Let me know, I have revived 4 boxes till now and found several problems in them.

I have Murena 1.6 which is sitting because of broken gearbox since 2-3 years.

Hello Mladen,

First question - you say the gearbox is broken, so what exactly is broken? What happened to cause it?

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I found topic on here, that the Murena use the same gearbox as Citroen CX. So I found CX 2.4i GTI stripped for parts in my country, and my idea is if I can use the gearbox from the CX GTI on my 1.6 Murena?

The gearbox is basically the same as the CX but there are differences obviously. The first is the casing and the clutch bell housing. This is why I ask what is broken. If it is the casing then you probably can't use it, but if it is some of the internals then maybe it could be useful, as Herman has pointed out.

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Just need it to move the car around, doesn't care about the performance and the gear ratios.

best Regards,Mladen

Even within the CX range there are lots of different gear clusters and ratios anyway, so again it comes back to what exactly you need.

One point though, you say there is no first and second gear but are you positive it is not just the linkage? It is more likely that the linkage is defective than something internal and expensive has failed. You need to fully check the linkage externally before going to all the work of removing the complete transaxle, when it might simply be something you could fix externally.

Don't think so, but You have to compare.I'm not sure all gears are the same as Murena.Possible that the backplate located below 5th gear and on the housing is thicker and 5th synchro is probably different.Then you need to replace all above 4th gear (bearings, gears, backplate synchro).1.6

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What you can use if the gearbox from the CX is later then 1980 is second gear and baulkrings 1-4.All kind of little stuff like sliders and levers but compare them.The Murena box had some updates during his short life and not everything can be exchanged.Read the manual about all adjustments.It's not a easy job but start with dismanteling the CX box and show us some pictures.

I have a topic about it on the Balgium forum.It is in Dutch but has lot's of pictures you can look about rebuild.Can come in handy.